Category: google maps

Maptiler is a good option for creating image overlays (such as historical maps) on Google Maps. There are some snags though — the code is still using gmaps API v2, which will give some indication for the attention being given to the project right now. The problem I ran into was adding overlays (such as…

Google MyMaps allows you to export KML by using the “Export to Google Earth” feature. If you copy/paste the URL that this button links to you get a KML, but it is a network reference to the actual KML. If you copy/paste the URL referenced in this KML in your browser, you’ll get a warning…

So it seems like there’s no automated way to go from mxd to file/folder based (rather than web service) tile cache. The best I could do was use maptiler/gdal2tiles (maptiler is a very nice gui for gdal2tiles) to cache raster layers. This will fuse multiple raster layers, but doesn’t handle vectors. If you want to…

To add a tiled basemap to a gmap created with views (and the gmaps) module: 1. First make sure that you have a gmap set up through views. This is a good tutorial: http://groups.drupal.org/node/19614 2. Next download the GMap Addons module, if you haven’t already done so 3. Create a map tile structure using something…

I wanted to use openstreetmaps as the base data layer for the new UD Campus Maps, but am running into the same labeling issues as when I use a google maps base layer … labels are prerendered to appear on streets, cities, etc. of course not taking into account placement of “UD” layers (e.g. buildings).…

I was getting the (generic and fairly common) “a is not defined” (on line 287 of main.js I believe) javascript error with gmaps when trying to add a GEvent click event listener. I intially thought it was an issue with my some map layers with ArcGIS Javascript Extension for Google Maps, but I resolved this…